Freeport
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local students receive supplies
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FHS grads win scholarships
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Vol. 85 No. 39
SEPTEMBER 24 - 30, 2020
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Honoring local heroes Ceremony offers thanks to those on the front lines the Baldwin Fire Department. Denise Martinez, manager of the GalaFresh supermarket in A Freeport fire volunteer, a Baldwin. sergeant in the Police DepartJoshua Mercado, an EMT in ment sergeant and a nurse at a the South Hempstead Fire village care facility were among Department. 1 6 l o c a l “ C ov i d C h r i s t i n a Heroes” honored by O’Leary, director of Nassau County Legthe Sandel Senior islator Debra Mulé at Center in Rockville a Sept. 15 ceremony Centre. at the Baldwin HisOlivia Rodriguez, torical Museum. an EMT in the South Mulé, of Freeport, Hempstead Fire recognized: Department. Nick LaBrone, of Zhanna Weinstein the Freeport Fire and Lonnie Greene, Department. of the Baldwin Fire John Jacobsen, of Department. the Police DepartSherisse Young, ment. director of pupil serWendy Moreta, a vices in the Baldwin nurse at the South lauRa cuRRaN School District. Ocean Care FederalThe Baldwin post ly Qualified Health County Executive office staff. Center in Freeport. The Nassau CounJohn Carey, a volty Police Department’s 1st Preunteer at the St. Christopher cinct. Roman Catholic Church food And the Island Harvest staff. pantry in Baldwin. “Whether it was responding to Elena Correnti, a physical a call to provide assistance to therapist at Mount Sinai South those stricken with the virus, Nassau hospital in Oceanside. donating their time and service Charles Dudley, an employee to volunteer, educating our youth of the Town of Hempstead’s Sani- or inspiring and lifting others up tary District No. 2. Lonnie Greene, a lieutenant in Continued on page 2
By RoNNY REYES rreyes@liherald.com
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local YouTHS SET out fresh produce at the Cedarmore Corporation’s farmers market outside the Baldwin Long Island Rail Road station last Saturday.
Providing fresh food to all Local farmers market helps meet demand By RoNNY REYES rreyes@liherald.com
Cars lined up at the eastern end of the Baldwin Long Island Rail Road station, between Milburn and North Brookside avenues, last Saturday to fill up with fresh produce at the Cedarmore Corporation’s weekly drive-through farmers market. Cedarmore, a nonprofit based in Freeport, has run the farmers market since 2012 to support Long Island farmers and provide jobs for local youths.
While Program Director Debra Wheat-Williams, of Baldwin, had worried that the market would be unable to operate this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the program carried on by converting to a drive-through format in July, allowing more than 100 customers a week to order food at a distance while teens and young adults prepare their orders. “We decided to open this year on a hope and a prayer,” Wheat-Williams said. “It’s working out g reat, and although we can get long lines,
people are willing to wait.”
Not just a market In 2012, Sandra Gales Jenkins, a retired nurse from Roosevelt, first heard about the newly created farmers market. Gales Jenkins had been attending mass at Zion Cathedral church, in Freeport, when she met a representative from Sustainable Long Island, a nonprofit that promotes economic development, environmental health and equity for all Long Islanders. Continued on page 7
his crisis did not create new heroes… it revealed the heroes who were always among us.